Khokhols: Ilya Repin’s Ukrainian Cossacks

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Repin & Cossacks’ Reply World-famous painter Ilya Repin devoted 10 years to creating his painting The Reply of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan....

Khokhol Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers

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Leo the Deacon Byzantine court historian Leo the Deacon met Kyiv ruler Sviatoslav the Brave in person in 971 AD. Leo’s description of the famous...

Older than Stonehenge and Pyramids: Megalithic Cromlech Kurgan in Ukraine

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Excavations In early 2021, archaeologists began excavating a huge mound south of Dnipro in central Ukraine; it was 7.5 meters high and 50 meters in...

Homer’s Iliad & Ancient Ukraine: Achilles’ Burial of his friend Patroclus

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Patroclus Burial In Chapter 23 of the Iliad, Homer describes the epic scenes of Patroclus’ burial, which Achilles organized for his friend. The funeral ritual included...

Russian Betrayal of All Its Treaties in 1939: NYTimes archival article

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The Russian Betrayal 18 Sep, 1939 NY Times It is altogether probable that the Russian invasion of Poland, just at the moment when that country has been...

Scythian Pegasus: Chertomlyk Silver Vase

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Chertomlyk Amphora The vase was discovered during the initial excavations of the Chertomlyk Royal Scythian Kurgan in Ukraine in 1862. The video on this channel...

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Britain needs Ukrainian procurement system, – Sky News

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"Last year, I visited Kiev to see the most advanced procurement system in the world. Called ProZorro, after the Ukrainian for "transparency", the system was...

Ukrainian who opened Space to Humankind: Sergei Korolev was born Jan....

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The man who would open space to Humankind, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, was born on 12 January 1907   in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. His mother Maria...

Ukrainian Cossack leader Ivan Mazepa and Lord Byron’s poem devoted to...

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Ukraine’s Pripyat River Is Like A Work of Art From Space

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Ukraine should return to Crimea its historic name of Taurica

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Wikipedia quote: "Called the Tauric Peninsula until the early modern period (16-19th c.), Crimea has historically been at the boundary between the classical world and the steppe......

Battle of Pygmies and Cranes: Pre-Homeric route from Scythia to Africa

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5,500 years-old Yamnaya settlement in Ukraine sheds light on the origins...

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Ukraine Can Fly

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Stalin-Hitler similarities and joint aims in WWII. Does Putin’s Russia have...

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Harvard Professor Robert C. Tucker, a political scientist and historian in his second Stalin biography, Stalin in Power: The Revolution From Above: 1928-1941, wrote: “On...

Griffin Pendants from 11th century Kyiv in the Metropolitan Museum of...

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Temple Pendant with Filigree Border | Kyivan Rus’ | The Metropolitan Museum of Art: These temple pendants are decorated on one side with griffins, mythical...